Groups and organisations:
The European Shakuhachi Society (ESS)
Finally ESS is a reality. We have been recognised as a charity organisation on the 4th March 2008. Our charity organisation no. is: 1123060. Our webiste is not yet ready, but you can check out information about what is going on in Europe here:
ESS website
SOAS Shakuhachi Summer School 08
Saturday to Sunday, 21st to 22nd June 2008, London, UK
SOAS will again host a Shakuhachi Summer School with Michael Soumei Coxall and Kiku Day as teachers. The focus will be honkyoku of Zensabo style, sankyoku and shinkyoku in kinko style. String players will come on the second day, so everyone has a chance to play with strings. We will also have a small student concert at the end of the course.
shakuhachisociety.eu/2008JuneSummerSchool
soas summer school
Euroshak List
Shakuhachi discussion list on internet with focus on Europe.
You can subscribe and see our activities here:
www.Euroshak
The International Shakuhachi Society (ISS) run by Ron Nelsson. An extremely important source of information about the shakuhachi in English.
www.komuso.com
The Australian Shakuhachi Society is an organisation founded by Dr. Riley Lee. They have an annual shakuhachifestival.
www.shakuhachi.org.au
The Dutch Shakuhachi Society, founded and run by
Kees Kort. Kees is very active
in promoting the shakuhachi in the Netherlands:
www.shakuhachi.nl
Tai Hei SHakuhachi - Monty Levenson
Monty Levenson is a very skilled shakuhachi maker and an intellectual living in the hills of Northern California. His webpage is an impressive source of information and goods to buy regarding shakuhachi
www.shakuhachi.com
The Shakuhachi Society of B.C. at Alcvin Ramos' Bamboo-in in Vancuver, Canada
www.bamboo-in.com
Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies
An annual five days intensive shakuhachi camp in the beacutiful foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
www.shakucamp.com
Ki Sui An Shakuhachi Camp
The annual shakuhachi camp on the East Coast of the USA led by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin, taking place in a farming and hancrafting community in Pennsylvania.
www.nyogetsu.com/camp
Individuals:
M. Henri Day - my father, a sinologist and psychiatrist, who reads widely and has an opinion on (almost) everything! He inspires me a lot and he also helps me with my English.
www.mhenriday.googlepages.com
www.mhenriday.blogspot.com
Veronza Bowers, Jr.
Imprisoned for murder, the former member of the Black Panthers is a political prisoner in the USA. He is devoted to healing meditation using shakuhachi.
www.veronza.org
Clive Bell is a shakuhachi player from London. His
focus is on improvisation, but participates in ensembles playing more traditional
Japanese music
www.clivebell.co.uk
Michael Coxall is a Yamaguchi Goro student and an excellent
performer of kinko style playing. His sankyoku playing is in particular touching. He teaches at SOAS:
www.swaj.org.uk/artists/michael-coxall
Jim Franklin is originally from Australia but
now lives in Germany. He has studied shakuhachi with Riley Lee and Yokoyama
Katsuya. He is active both as a shakuhachi and theremin player and as a composer:
www.bambus-atem.de/hinweise/veranstaltungen.html
Jürg Fuyuzui Zurmühle is a shakuhachi player in Liestal, Switzerland. He is one of the most active members of the 'Swiss shakuhachi family' - the students of Andreas Gutzwiller:
www.shakuhachi.ch
Torsten Olafsson is a Danish multi-instrumentalist.
He has done research into many aspects of the shakuhachi, has his own
label etc:
www.torstenolafsson.com
Brian Tairaku Ritchie is a rock/jazz musician and shakuhachi player. He is in particular interested in the large bore ji-nashi shakuhachi and plays some amazing flutes even in jazz bands.
www.brianritchie.com
www.vfemmes.com
Vlatislav Matoušek studied philosophy at the Charles University in Prague - continued with composition and music theory, and now plays Myoan Taizan shakuhachi as well as his own compositions:
www.musica.cz/matousek
www.shakuhachi.cz
Philip Gelb is an active shakuhachi player in the San Francisco Bay Area. He focuses on contemporary music and improvisation, and is running the Bay Area Shakuhachi School. His cooking is heavenly:
www.philipgelb.com
